However, following the withdrawal of London flights in early 2011, the airport's owners said passenger totals had fallen to fewer than 100 a day.
Despite this, passenger totals were up 11% in 2005 over 2004, and international passengers increased to 3.06 million in 2006, up 10% over 2005.
Annual passenger total in 2012 increased by 4%, or 349,439 passengers, from the previous record year of 2011.
For 1988, it puts this number at 555, out of a 1988 passenger total of 64.4 million.
A head count is taken, and the passenger total is recorded as 20.
The passenger total in 2012 fell to 17.5 million, a 3.3% reduction compared with 2011.
We have the capacity to increase our passenger totals and ease congestion in the South-East.
Islip's passenger totals have bumped up and down between 1982 and 1993 but show a more than fourfold rise during this period.
Ms. Jacoby said the figure at Carnival was 1 percent, but she would not give a passenger total.
Instead, passenger totals fell from 626,368 in 1973 to 495,451 in 1974, and the years since have been even worse.